After suffering extremely from hunger, they arrived at Laramie's
Fork, a small tributary of the north branch of the Nebraska, about sixty miles above the cliffs just mentioned.
His helpless body guided thus by the tail, his chest jabbed by the iron
fork in Mulcachy's hands, the rope was suddenly lowered, and Ben Bolt, with swimming brain, found himself seated in the chair.
Here one of the guides paused, and, after considering the vast landscape attentively, pointed to three mountain peaks glistening with snow, which rose, he said, above a
fork of Columbia River.
By-and-by he dug so close to her that the fire-beams were reflected as distinctly from the steel prongs of his
fork as from her own.
He continued up the right
fork. The day wore along, and nothing rewarded his hunt.
Your fish-plates, they are cleared away with the knife and
fork on them!"
Above the
fork of the tree whereon we rested was a pile of dead branches and brush.
"You know there ain't enough in the North
Fork to do a week's washing for the camp--to say nothin' of its color."
Give me your
fork, Mum, and take the baby," said Flopson.
Danglars asked for a knife and
fork. "Here, excellency," said Peppino, offering him a little blunt knife and a boxwood
fork.
I would gladly have eaten the potatoes and let the meat alone, but having got a large piece of the latter on to my plate, I could not be so impolite as to leave it; so, after many awkward and unsuccessful attempts to cut it with the knife, or tear it with the
fork, or pull it asunder between them, sensible that the awful lady was a spectator to the whole transaction, I at last desperately grasped the knife and
fork in my fists, like a child of two years old, and fell to work with all the little strength I possessed.
Sometimes, after every two or three mouthfuls, he laid down his knife and
fork, and stared at his son with all his might--particularly at his maimed side; then, he looked slowly round the table until he caught some person's eye, when he shook his head with great solemnity, patted his shoulder, winked, or as one may say--for winking was a very slow process with him--went to sleep with one eye for a minute or two; and so, with another solemn shaking of his head, took up his knife and
fork again, and went on eating.